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Is there a good introductory read on like kremlinology but for China? It’s like I’m not sure what to think about when I think about “China.” The party? Xi? Various powerful families? Their monetary policy?
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🤔 what do you think about when you think about India or the US? I bet if you made a short list of each of those things you’d sort of see China looming at you as the... haha... the third body
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first things I tend to think about fwiw are the century of humiliation and the opium wars etc. I think of the narrative as something like “a proud people who have been patiently working and making sacrifices etc to return to glory” - sacrifices here ofc incl some terrible things
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This is not what I’m talking about. I’m talking specific people and orgs making specific decisions like interest dates or deals with China or “let’s send vandals to H&M” or “put Uighur in concentration camps”
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Oh right gotcha. You’ll find some interestingly revealing things looking at what Singaporean diplomats have said about their Chinese counterparts. I know George Yeo has said lots of stuff tho I’m not sure if this is particularly one of the good ones
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